Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. The Most Prominent Man in Alabama: An Introduction to Justice John McKinley
2. Logans, Law, and Political Futility
3. Alabama Fever and Georgia Faction
4. The Politics of Political Change
5. Prelude to the Court: Jacksonian Devotion in Alabama and Washington
6. The Burdens of Justice on the Antebellum Supreme Court
7. The Supreme Court and the Original Ninth Circuit, 1837–1842
8. Circuit Relief and Declining Health, 1843–1852
9. The Legacies of Justice John McKinley
Appendix: Justice John McKinley’s Supreme Court Opinions and Dissents
Notes
Bibliography
Index